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We bring cutting-edge strategy, modern web services and infrastructure automation to our clients. Santa Monica, CA. Http:/ www.dualspark.com. X69;nfo@dualspark.com. Aug 19, 2016. Jun 2, 2016. Proof of concept for Java app polling SQS for work. Nov 17, 2015. Nov 6, 2015. Demo repository for CloudExpo 2015 Santa Clara. Nov 5, 2015. Cookiecutter template for building consistent Terraform modules. Nov 5, 2015. Repo holding build docker images for demos and other general purpose(s). Nov 5, 2015. Oct 31, 2015.
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Business SOA: August 2014
http://service-architecture.blogspot.com/2014_08_01_archive.html
A Simple blog about Business SOA and generally about how to drive IT from a business perspective. All opinions are mine and should be taken with a pinch of salt etc etc. Thursday, August 07, 2014. Whistler, Microsoft and how far cloud has come. How do I know this? Well back in 2008 I was sitting on the top of a mountain with Simon Plant. Simon: "So what we need is a virtual core price". MSFT: "That will be the same as the physical core price". Simon: "But its ok that it might move physical machines?
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http://blog.dualspark.com/chef/immutable-images/2015/06/29/immutable-images-with-chef.html
Automation Everywhere ™. MSP Handoff ™. Using Chef, Test-Kitchen and Packer to Build Immutable Images. We had a great event at the AWS offices in Santa Monica. On June 25 and coming out of that I wanted to post some succinct examples of the topics we were discussing. This post will tease apart the details around how to use Chef. To develop, test and publish Amazon Machine Images. To accomplish this, we’ll need a few prerequisites locally:. Valid AWS Credentials in your. With proper rights assigned. And p...
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http://blog.dualspark.com/aws/api/microservices/2015/07/09/first-look-api-gateway.html
Automation Everywhere ™. MSP Handoff ™. First look - AWS API Gateway. Aws, api, microservices. I can’t even tell you how thrilled I was this morning when someone on my team found that there’s a new product available on AWS- Amazon API Gateway. Let’s talk this through because while the features are awesome and the integration with existing AWS security and other services is MASSIVELY powerful, unless you crunch the numbers you might end up surprised when you see your bill. In Jeff Barr’s post. Cost of dat...
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http://blog.dualspark.com/categories/ansible
Automation Everywhere ™. MSP Handoff ™. We love automation and really hate having to do things more than once so I built out a template using a few python tools for creating Ansible Roles with a Vagrant. CONNECTING AWS AUTOSCALING TO ANSIBLE TOWER. Here at DualSpark we are big fans of AWS and Ansible. One of the benefits of Ansible is that it is agentless, segregating credentials and supporting zero bootstrapping of base. ANSIBLE ON AWS: FREE BEST PRACTICES WEBINAR ON DECEMBER 17TH!
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http://blog.dualspark.com/ansible/configuration-management/aws/ssh/2014/12/19/ansible-tower-ssh-agent-forwarding.html
Automation Everywhere ™. MSP Handoff ™. SSH Agent Forwarding Configuration with Ansible and Tower. Ansible, configuration-management, aws, ssh. To be clear, we’re looking to take a deployment in an arbitrary network or environment without direct connectivity to the AWS Environment. Tower and Ansible will use the Bastion Instance as a jump box to access instances in private subnets within a VPC deployment. The only requirements in this scenario are:. There are a few things to note here:. The SSH Key used ...
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DualSpark Blog
http://blog.dualspark.com/ansible/configuration-management/aws/2014/09/08/autoscaling-ansible-tower.html
Automation Everywhere ™. MSP Handoff ™. Connecting AWS Autoscaling to Ansible Tower. Ansible, configuration-management, aws. To get started, we need a few pieces of AWS plumbing set up. You can use the AWS console, CLI, or API SDKs to set up most of this, but at this time, setting the hooks themselves can not be done via the console. Set up a Queue:. We will use an SQS queue to receive the lifecycle hook events. Bash aws sqs create-queue - queue-name ansible-tower. Set up an IAM Role:. Now that we have a...
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http://blog.dualspark.com/aws/automation/continuous-delivery/2015/07/16/welcome_codepipeline.html
Automation Everywhere ™. MSP Handoff ™. Aws, automation, continuous-delivery. What is a Deployment Pipeline? In the beginning there was the build script: a large, monolithic piece of voodoo for automating most of your build. Then at some point we realized that component based development wasn’t just for application code and we began to apply the principles of. According to Martin Fowler,. Continuous delivery is about putting the release schedule in the hands of the business. Continuous Deployment is the ...
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DualSpark Blog
http://blog.dualspark.com/aws/lambda/2015/08/10/lambda-out-of-beta.html
Automation Everywhere ™. MSP Handoff ™. Lambda Out Of Beta: The Alpha and Omega. Hi, this is Martin. When Amazon Lambda. Was announced at AWS re:Invent last November. There were a lot of questions. How will this fit it in with all the other services? Could it replace Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). Service, or is it always going to be just used as glue? I started using Lambda as soon as it came out. The first uses were the out-of-the-box ones: Amazon Kinesis. Event actions, Amazon DynamoDB Streams.
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